The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-12

CouSrERrEIT silver dollars are in circula.
tion.
THE weather wiseacres forctcll On un.
usually stormy November
KEEP your tongue Off your lip and your
lip won't chap, says doctor.
AMERICAN books are beginning to com.
mand large sale In England.
The Car can bend q silver dollar double
with his thumb and forehnger.
MALIEToA, ex-King Of Samoa, was car
fied or on German man-of-war.
TuERr are about $500, ,Oc0 umbrellas and
parasols sold in this country every year.
AN East Saginaw man has dog that
can turn somersaults as we'll as an acrobat.
The Davy salty lamp for English coal
mines has been officially condemned at
last. .. ...
BUREAUS for furnishing legal advice free
to the poor is the latest thing in New
York.
BECAUSE Europe is cramped as to popu-
lation is no reason why she should give us
the cholera.
AN Iowa physician reports to the board
Of health the death of u child from 'colery
and phantom"
CoMMoDoRE JosEpu B. HULL is the oldest
officer in the American navy. He was ap-
pointed in 1918.
The entire revenue of the postmaster at
Brownsville, Kan, last year amounted to
only fifty live cents.
SENATOR CULLoM, Of Illinois, favors Gov
ernmental control of the telegraph system
of the United States.
If you don't know which side your bread
is buttered on, drop it; you'll find out in
kimming off the trash.
ALL the locomotives of the world are
said to number 1O5,OOO representing total
of 3,0O0,00O horse power.
TWINS ninety years of age are the pride
of West Dedham, Mass. They are the
daughters of Isaac Colburn. .
A PAIR of Siberian kittens belonging to
r. T.. Wilson, Of East Nottingham, Pa,
have each gray and u blue eye.
AN advertisement Of "wanted, man for
Office work." ill New York paper brought
4O8 answers in twenty-four hours.
THE Baltimore husband is not RESPONSE
BILE for the wife's debts. Thus it appears
that the husband and wife are too.
In addition to being land of the free,
America now has the blessed privilege Of
fumigating the oppressed of the earth.
AN adze of pure copper, and weighing
four and one-half pounds, was recently
found in a mound near Neillsville, Wis.
THE Prince of Wales is splendid per-
former on the banjo. No wonder the En-
glish sing with such fervor, "God save the
Queen"
MONTANA paid during the present year
in bounties for the killing of squirrels,
wolves, prairie dogs, bears and coyotes,
s06,625.1O.
SUSAN r. ANTHONY is making thorough
canvass of Kansas in the interest of wo.
man suffrage, speaking at all the princi-
pal towns.
AMERICAN mill machinery is generally re-
garded as superior to that of England, on
the ground of its greater lightness and
durability
THE friends of President Diaz, of Mexico,
propose to present him with massive H.
brary table of solid silver on his approach.
ing birthday.
MAXWELL, the ST. Louis murderer, is do
ing thriving business. 1t is reported
that he sold sl1O worth Of his photographs
in three days.
MINNEAPoLIs printers secured an ad-
vance in composition which took effect
November l. The employees think it ty-
biographical error. ~
This country ships to Europe every year
100000 barrels of oysters. The daily con-
sumption in New York alone is thought to
be 100000 of the bivalves.
In ten years. time the percentage of
water power employed in this country fell
from As to 35 per cent, thus showing the
advance in the use of steam.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the Prince of Wales
are the only ones in the future to be given
special steamers between England and the
Continent at the cost of the State
PROF. ELISHA GRAY has invented what he
calls 1.-THE Telautograph," which will
transmit fac-simile" autographs to any
distance over ordinary telegraph wires.
Lillian HUDSON is the name Of the com
ing pianist. She is an American girl of
unusual beauty, and can discount many
of the foreign talent that visit this coun-
try.
LIFE in Cuba has its drawbacks. Thirty
three earthquake shocks in one month,
with an occasional tidal wave driving peo-
pie from the coasts are not attractive
features. .-.. .tl..
The army of the United States contains
2, i02 officers and 20, 946 men. 1t costs from
1900 600 to S40,0O0,000 annually, includ-
ing all the expenses of forts, arms, equip
ments, etc.
DIR. BU ssoN, Of Paris, claims to cure
hydrophobia by hot baths often repeated
He makes the patient remain continually
in hot room, and the baths are made as
hot 142 degrees.
ANOTHER suit has been instituted to
break Mrs. A. L. Stewards will. By the
time her relatives and the lawyers get
through with the estate, there will be very
little left to fight for.
WHILE repairing an old log-house near
Dunbar camp, Fayette County, Pa, John
Robuck found well-preserved oak box,
which, when opened, was found to con-
tain 81, 26O in gold and silver.
CONSTABLE Of Tyrone, Pa, is enforcing
an ordinance of that borough, requiring all
boys to be at their homes not later than s
p. m. Some urchins have been put into
the lookup for not complying with the
law. t.,....5I
The Princess Olympia Bariatlnski is a
trusted agent of the Gar. She is now in
Berlin on confidential mission to
Emperor William. The Gear evidently be-
lieves that woman can keep secret.
A CHICAGO dun collects bills by pretend.
ing to be deaf, and when his debtor explains
why he does not pay, the dun makes him
yell his explanation SO that it can be
heard by everybody within long range ear
shot ren r .-nf..t. 7g
EUROPE spends the enormous sum of S.
66, 900, GOO every yoar on armies and fiaus